#VU51274 Resource management error in jspdf - CVE-2021-23353

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#VU51274 Resource management error in jspdf - CVE-2021-23353

Published: March 9, 2021 / Updated: January 31, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU51274
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-23353
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
jspdf
Software vendor:
Jelle_S

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the application when processing data with regular expressions within the addImage function. A remote attacker can send specially crafted HTTP requests to the application pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service via regular expression (ReDoS) attack.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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